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Uploaded by on Jan 3, 2010

Whispering by Benny Goodman Quartet, Victor 25481A, 12/02/1936. Played on my home-made Orthophonic Victrola. Mechanics are all parts bought on eBay, cabinet/horn home made by me based on measurements from an ebay auction and various diagrams/photos from the web. Let me know what you think, sounds pretty good to me but I've never heard an Orthophonic in person.

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  • that is the best homemade gramophones (victrola) i have ever seen im busy making one with a huge horn a bit like an emg but it wont be as good as yours

  • BTW- Is that even an orthophonic disc? Really neat experiment.

  • It sounds great. I have a Victor Orthophonic and an Edison Diamond Disc. It is hard to tell for sure from a recording on YouTube, but it appears to sound as good as either that I have. I would really like to know more about your design and where you got the components. What is the cross section of your sound box? What are the angles? What baffles can't we see? Generally I would not applaud something that is not as original as possible, but how can you  argue with that good sound?

  • Congratulations! Your home made plays very well!

  • One of the things I notice about "electric" orthophonic discs played on acoustic orthophonic machines is their immediacy. No electronic intruding. They play back with a fairly wide frequency response, but there are no electronics to gum things up. You/ve achieve this immediacy in spades. I'd love to have one of those machines, since the old orthophic machines are so expensive. 

  • VERY impressive. A genuinely worthwhile YouTube presentation. Thank you.

  • Amazing.  You are very talented.

  • Incredible!

  • Coolest thing I have seen in eons!

  • WOW! AWESOME! You put that together from parts? That is amazing!!

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